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(No Model.)

L.AJ. NOBLE.

PAIL.

Patented May 22, 1894.

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UNITED STATES LEANDER J. NOBLE, OF

PATENT OFFICE.

MENASHA, VVISOONSIN.

PAIL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 520,074, dated May 22,1894.

Application filed March 20, 1894.

To a, whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, LEANDER J. NOBLE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Menasha, inthe county of Winnebago and State of Wisconsin,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pails, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a strong, cheap and durablepail.

My invention relates particularly to the manner of hooping the pail, andconsists in arranging wire hoops in recesses-or cut-away portions in thebody of the pail in the manner hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure l is afront elevation of a pail. or bucket with my improvements applied. Fig.2 is a vertical, central section thereof. Fig. 3 is a view on anenlarged scale showing the manner of securing the bottom of the bucketin place. Fig. 4 is a plan view of one of the hoops.

The body A, of the bucket may be made upof staves in the usual way. Thebottom B, is also of usual construction, and is fitted in the croze orannular groove 1). I employ wire hoops O, and preferably weld themtogether by electricity at c. Preferably, I employ four hoops, andarrange them in annular recesses c, in the body of the bucket. Theserecesses are formed with horizontal, overhanging ledges c and Verticalor perpendicular surfaces 0 forming a groove substantially triangular incross section. In the angles of Serial No. 504,439. (No model.)

these grooves, the hoops fit closely. By this arrangement I am enabledto drive the hoops home in such manner as to produce a tight and durableconnection, and when driven home the hoops will lie in the recesses,their outer surfaces being in line or substantially in line with thebody of the bucket. In this way the buckets may be nested fortransportation, there will be no danger of the .hoops being knocked 0E,and space iseconomized. The bottom hoop is arranged, as shown, below thebottom B. By this arrangement, the chine is made shorter and strongerthan it would be if the hoop were'placed above the crozing. The surfaces0 being perpendicular, there is not that liability for the hoops tocrawl downwardly, as there is, or would be, when the hoops rest oninclined surfaces.

I claim as my invention 1. A pail having the hoops arranged in recessesformed with straight or perpendicular surfaces, forming with ahorizontal ledge a seat for the hoop.

2. A pail, flaring from its lower end up- Wardly, having its hoopsarranged in seats formed with perpendicular surfaces and horizontalledges.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name.

. LEANDER J. NOBLE.

Witnesses:

W. F. ANKLAM, H. J. MAYER.

